Osaka JALT Archive

This is an archive of all of the past events of Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching on ELT Calendar.

April 28th (Sunday) 2024
Osaka JALT Back to School
Speaker: Various speakers
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 30th (Sunday) 2023
Summer Eikaiwa Forum
Speaker: Paschal Orjika Olivia Allanson
Location: Online, Online Events

April 23rd (Sunday) 2023
Back to School 2023
Speaker: Tamara Swenson, Steve Porritt, and more (call for presentations is open until April 2nd)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 26th (Sunday) 2023
Eikaiwa Forum
Speaker: Mimi Yoshi-Podger and Martin Spivey
Location: Online, Online Events

May 28th (Saturday) 2022
New JALT Team-Teaching Working Group and Narrative Inquiry book launch
Speaker: Takaaki Hiratsuka (Ryukoku University)
Location: Online, Online Events

May 9th (Sunday) 2021
Back to School 2021
Speaker: Various, TBA
Location: Online, Online Events

May 24th (Sunday) 2020
Back to School 2020 (ONLINE EVENT)
Speaker: Several speakers
Location: Online, Online Events

September 29th (Saturday) 2018
Osaka JALT Tech Day Plus 2018
Speaker: Jerry Talandis, Jr., JALT Publications Board Chair, and many others
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 18th (Wednesday) 2018
Achieving Coherence in Content-Based Language Teaching: Applying the 6 Ts to Course Design
Speaker: Donna M. Brinton (private educational consultant based in Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 15th (Sunday) 2018
Transforming Our Professional Identities and Classroom Practices: Innovations that Have Changed ELT
Speaker: Donna M. Brinton (private educational consultant based in Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

May 12th (Saturday) 2018
Back to School 2018 Mini-Conference
Speaker: Call for participation due April 20
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 4th (Saturday) 2017
Kansai Four Corners Tour 2017
Speaker: Gabriel Diaz Maggioli and John Wiltshier
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

September 9th (Saturday) 2017
2017 Annual JALT Vocabulary SIG Symposium: Learning/cognition and corpus linguistics
Speaker: David Beglar, Jenifer Larson-Hall, Robert Nelson, Yu Kanazawa, Phil Bennett, Laurence Anthony, Dale Brown, Paul Lyddon, Rock Romanko
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 2nd (Sunday) 2017
Summer Seminar: Business and Intercultural Negotiation (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Chris Bates (Interfas management consulting company, Taiwan), Kumiko Murata (Waseda University), Tim Craig (Doshisha University)
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

July 1st (Saturday) 2017
Summer Seminar: Business and Intercultural Negotiation
Speaker: Chris Bates (Interfas management consulting company, Taiwan), Kumiko Murata (Waseda University), Tim Craig (Doshisha University)
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

May 27th (Saturday) 2017
Back to School 2017: 7th annual Osaka JALT spring mini-conference
Speaker: Keynote speaker: Professor Gordon Bateson (Kochi University of Technology); call for participation due April 30
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 22nd (Sunday) 2017
Double session: Two views of Reflective Practice
Speaker: Joan Kuroda and Joan Gilbert (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

April 23rd (Saturday) 2016
Back to School 2016
Speaker: Various TBA; deadline for proposals is March 31
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 31st (Sunday) 2016
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Iran: History, Education, Language, and More
Speaker: Parisa Mehran and Mehrasa Alizadeh
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 24th (Saturday) 2015
A Special Double Session on Translation and Interpretation, co-sponsored by SIETAR Kansai
Speaker: (1) Shoko Toyokura (Osaka Jogakuin University); (2) Masako Mouri (Kansai University)
Location: Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture

July 4th (Saturday) 2015
A Mid-summer's Day Micro-conference
Speaker: Samuel Sorenson, Michael Iwane-Salovaara, Cameron Romney, and Gerry Yokota
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 3rd (Monday) 2014
Culture Day (Bunka-no-hi)
JALT2014 Four Corners Tour in Kansai: The Teaching Power of Stories
Speaker: Bill Harley, JALT2014 National Conference Plenary Speaker, Two-time Grammy-award winning musician, storyteller, and author
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 26th (Sunday) 2014
Curiosity to Competency: Intercultural Activities for the Language Classroom
Speaker: Jon Dujmovich (Aichi University)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 5th (Sunday) 2014
TechDay +Plus 2014 mini-conference (co-sponsored by Osaka and Kobe JALT)
Speaker: Various. Plenary Charles Browne (Meiji Gakuin University)
Location: Itami City, Osaka Prefecture

July 5th (Saturday) 2014
Summer Seminar 2014 on Language Teaching and Learning
Speaker: Matthew T. Apple (Ritsumeikan University), Toru Nakahara (Osaka Prefectural Board of Education), Matthew Cook (Osaka Prefectural Board of Education). Call for papers due June 1st
Location: Amgasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture

July 5th (Saturday) 2014
Apple Store Shinsaibashi workshop: Using the new Keynote on Mac and iOS
Speaker: Steve Patton and Malcolm Swanson
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 1st (Sunday) 2014
From Motivation to Emotivation
Speaker: Liliana Landolfi (University of Naples, Italy)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 27th (Sunday) 2014
Osaka JALT Back-to-School 2014 mini-conference
Speaker: Various; submit your ideas by March 30th
Location: Itami City, Osaka Prefecture

February 16th (Sunday) 2014
Resilient Minorities in Japan: Filipino English Teachers and Ainu-Maori Cultural Exchange
Speaker: Jason Bartashius and Jennifer Teeter
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

January 19th (Sunday) 2014
Osaka JALT Winter Potpourri Micro-conference
Speaker: Various speakers
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

December 14th (Saturday) 2013
2013 all-Kansai JALT Bonenkai-Pub Quiz
Speaker: Quiz MC: Ray Franklin (Osaka JALT Publicity Chair)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 17th (Sunday) 2013
Kansai ELT Expo
Speaker: To be announced; call for papers due October 17th
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

October 29th (Tuesday) 2013
An Evening with Elka Todeva of SIT Graduate Institute, the Osaka JALT Featured Speaker at JALT2013
Speaker: Elka Todeva (SIT Graduate Institute)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

September 28th (Saturday) 2013
Tech Day +Plus 2013
Speaker: Various speakers; Keynote speaker Thomas Robb (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Location: Itami City, Osaka Prefecture

September 7th (Saturday) 2013
(1) Interactional Competence vs. Pragmatic Competence; (2) Seeing Learning in Interaction
Speaker: (1) Christopher Jenks (City University of Hong Kong); (2) Adam Brandt (Newcastle University)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 20th (Saturday) 2013
Summer Seminar 2013: KUIS 12th Conference on Language Teaching and Learning
Speaker: Atsuko Takase (Kinki University, Osaka), Hajime Narita (Osaka University)
Location: Amgasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture

June 28th (Friday) 2013
Engaging All - Instructional Strategies That Foster Student Success
Speaker: Laura Markslag, Scott Badiuk, and Robert Sheridan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 14th (Sunday) 2013
Osaka JALT Back to School 2013 Mini-Conference
Speaker: Various. Plenary speaker: Yuko Nishiyama. Call for proposals due March 14
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

December 15th (Saturday) 2012
Kansai JALT Year-End Bonenkai and Pecha-Kucha
Speaker: Steve Cornwell; George Schaaff; David Lees: John Rucynski; Sam Crofts; James Crocker; Margaret Bowden; Richard Miller
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture

July 21st (Saturday) 2012
Effective Language Teaching: The Never-Ending Challenge
Speaker: Kazuhiro Nomura (Kobe Gaidai University), Paul Hullah (Meiji Gakuin University); call for papers due June 17th
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

April 22nd (Sunday) 2012
Osaka JALT Back to School 2012
Speaker: Various speakers
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

April 8th (Sunday) 2012
International Hanami BBQ Party at Sakuranomiya Park
Speaker: Everyone (It's a party!)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 7th (Saturday) 2012
Motivation and Negotiated Syllabuses
Speaker: Andy Boon (Toyo Gakuen University)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 12th (Sunday) 2012
Film showing: The Grandpa from Brazil
Speaker: Nanako Kurihara (film director/producer)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 29th (Sunday) 2012
Winter Potpourri: Practical tips, Pronunciation training, Collaborative Research, and Online Exchange with Dubai
Speaker: Stuart Mclean, Gabor Pinter, Greg Sholdt, and Laura Markslag
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

December 17th (Saturday) 2011
A Joint Kansai JALT (Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka JALT Chapters) Year-End Event with PechaKucha Night Nishinomiya #11
Speaker: 12 PechaKucha Format Presentations
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

November 26th (Saturday) 2011
An Evening with Marlen Harrison: (1) Language and Sexuality; (2) Supporting Agency & Investment in Multilingual Writers
Speaker: Marlen Harrison (University of Jyvskyl, Finland)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 16th (Wednesday) 2011
Dinner with Professor Emeritus Keith Johnson of Lancaster University, England
Speaker: Professor Emeritus Keith Johnson
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 13th (Sunday) 2011
Osaka JALT Annual General Meeting and Dinner Party
Speaker: All present
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 10th (Sunday) 2011
FAB1: Connecting Brain Science with EFL
Speaker: Marc Helgesen, Curtis Kelly, Tim Murphey, Robert Murphy, and more
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

June 19th (Sunday) 2011
Osaka JALT's 7th Annual Tech Day Plus at Hannan University
Speaker: Plenary by Steve McCarty, plus 24 other presenters
Location: Matsubara City, Osaka Prefecture

May 20th (Friday) 2011
Dr. John Read: Beyond Knowing Words: Assessing the Quality of Vocabulary Knowledge
Speaker: John Read, of Univ. of Auckland, NZ, author of Assessing Vocabulary
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 24th (Sunday) 2011
Osaka JALT Back to School 2011
Speaker: Various presenters
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

December 18th (Saturday) 2010
JALT All-Kansai Pecha Kucha Night and Bonenkai
Speaker: Several
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

October 17th (Sunday) 2010
A Moveable Feast - A collaborative teacher development event
Speaker: Charles Adamson, Chuck Sandy, Deryn Verity, Steve Cornwell, and more
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

July 31st (Saturday) 2010
Teaching in English: Challenges for High School (The 9th Seminar on English Education at Kansai University of International Studies, Amagasaki campus)
Speaker: Keynote speaker: Tomoyasu Mizohata, Otori High School (Osaka)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 27th (Sunday) 2010
Osaka JALT's 6th Annual Tech Day at Hannan University
Speaker: 32 presenters
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 25th (Sunday) 2010
Back to School - practical ideas to help start the year off right
Speaker: Oana Maria Cusen, Steven Herder, Rebecca King, Brian Wojtowicz, Joshua Cohen, Raymond Bolger, Harry Carley, and Jeff Crawford
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 6th (Saturday) 2010
Overcoming Common Challenges for High School and University Language Teaching
Speaker: Keynote Speaker: Kazuhiro Nomura. Plus many others
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 16th (Saturday) 2010
(1) Teaching the Strategies of Speaking; (2) Teaching Listening to Low-level Learners
Speaker: Alastair Graham-Marr, ABAX
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

December 13th (Sunday) 2009
JALT 2009 National Conference Review, Action Research Methodology, and annual Bonenkai
Speaker: Greg Sholdt
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 24th (Tuesday) 2009
An Evening with Scott Thornbury - My ten favourite grammar lessons
Speaker: Scott Thornbury
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

August 1st (Saturday) 2009
Living and Teaching in Qatar (followed by Beer Garden Party)
Speaker: Larry Metzger
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 5th (Sunday) 2009
2nd Annual Extensive Reading Seminar in Japan
Speaker: Keynote Rob Waring. Call for papers due May 18th
Location: Higashi-Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 21st (Sunday) 2009
5th Annual Tech Day at Hannan University: Tech Day Plus
Speaker: TBA; call for presentations deadline May 22nd
Location: Matsubara City, Osaka Prefecture

May 31st (Sunday) 2009
Six principles for foreign language classes
Speaker: David Beglar
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 7th (Saturday) 2009
Party with National JALT Directors, Officers, and Representatives from throughout Japan
Speaker: Everyone (It's a party!)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 6th (Friday) 2009
Good Practices that Help Students Learn and Teachers Grow
Speaker: Wilma Luth, Hokkai Gakuen Univ., Hokkaido JALT Chapter President
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 17th (Saturday) 2009
The Use Of Student Evaluation Of Teaching Surveys In Higher Education: Is English Language Teaching A Disadvantaged Profession?
Speaker: Peter Burden, Okayama Shoka University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 23rd (Sunday) 2008
Labor Thanksgiving Day (Kinrou-kansha-no-hi)
Peer Support Writing Workshop
Speaker: Myles Grogan, Matt Apple, Deryn Verity
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 11th (Saturday) 2008
Presentation Zen: How to design and deliver compelling presentations
Speaker: Garr Reynolds
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 22nd (Sunday) 2008
Tech Day 2008
Speaker: Mari Yamauchi, Marlen Harrison, Shawn White, Bill White, Craig Gamble, Troy Guze, Kevin Lucas, Sally Thelen, Trent Spriggs, and Matthew Rooks
Location: Higashi-Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 27th (Sunday) 2008
Ethnic Disunity and Conflict in Burma
Speaker: Richard Humphries
Location: Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture

March 29th (Saturday) 2008
From Visitor to Resident - How you can set down roots in Japan
Speaker: Arudou Debito
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 23rd (Saturday) 2008
Getting Published
Speaker: Steve Cornwell and Deryn Verity
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 26th (Saturday) 2008
Job Hunting for Teachers
Speaker: Cameron Romney
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

December 15th (Saturday) 2007
Osaka JALT Chapter Bonenkai at Namba Parks Saijiki restaurant
Speaker: It's a party!
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 10th (Sunday) 2007
Tech Day 2007
Speaker: Tom Robb, Myles Grogan, Gordon Wilson, Leon Bell, and more
Location: Matsubara City, Osaka Prefecture

May 19th (Saturday) 2007
From a Silk Cocoon (viewing the award-winning film with its co-writer and director)
Speaker: Satsuki Ina, California State Univ., Sacramento
Location: Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture

October 29th (Sunday) 2006
Wine, Cheese, and The New TOEIC (followed by Osaka Chapter elections and business meeting)
Speaker: Lin Lougheed of Pearson Longman, and Grant Trew of Oxford University Press
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 9th (Sunday) 2006
Group-Building in the Classroom
Speaker: Warren Decker
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 11th (Sunday) 2006
Authoring Autonomy: Experience, Resistance and Resolution
Speaker: Tim Murphey, Keiko Sakui, Neil Cowie, Stacey Vye, Eric Skier, and Martha Robertson
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

May 28th (Sunday) 2006
Storytelling Workshop
Speaker: Charles Kowalski, Brian Caspino, Steve Thompson, David Simpson, and more
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

May 21st (Sunday) 2006
Tech Day 2006
Speaker: Bill Pellowe, Robert Chartrand, Gordon Wilson, Cameron Romney and more
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 2nd (Sunday) 2006
The Mary Matsuda Gruenwald Story and Hanami Social
Speaker: Mary Matsuda Gruenewald, author of Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

March 3rd (Friday) 2006
Civil Rights in Japan
Speaker: Arudou Debito
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 17th (Friday) 2006
Exploring Action Research Methods: Examples from an Extensive Reading Program
Speaker: Greg Sholdt, Himeji Dokkyo University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 29th (Sunday) 2006
Shinnenkai at Osaka Hilton's Checkers Restaurant
Speaker: It's a party!
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

December 17th (Saturday) 2005
Osaka JALT Chapter Bonenkai at Universal City's Chicago for Ribs Restaurant
Speaker: It's a Party!
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 22nd (Saturday) 2005
4th Annual Storytelling Festival and Symposium
Speaker: Curtis Kelly, Beniko Mason, Brian Caspino, Rex Tanimoto, and many more (including many students)
Location: Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

September 7th (Wednesday) 2005
Teaching Grammar Communicatively
Speaker: David Nunan
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 17th (Sunday) 2005
2nd Annual Work in Progress Mini-Conference: A Day Celebrating Learner Development
Speaker: Stacy Vye, Yoko Wakui, Marlen Harrison, Matthew Apple, Amanda Bradley, Etsuko Shimo, Brian Caspino, Bob Sanderson, Denise Haugh, Terry Fellner and more
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 26th (Sunday) 2005
Tech Day
Speaker: Gordon Wilson (Hannan Univ.), Steve Silsbee (Hannan & Momoyama Univ.), Cameron Romney (Momoyama Univ.), & Marlen Harrison (Momoyama & Doshisha Univ.)
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

May 22nd (Sunday) 2005
Storytelling and English Workshop
Speaker: Beniko Mason, Rex Tanimoto, and The Multi-lingual Materials Development Group
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

May 8th (Sunday) 2005
Outdoor Language Learning: An Alternative Learning Environment
Speaker: Terry Fellner, Himeji Dokkyo University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 9th (Saturday) 2005
Hanami Social (change of date)
Speaker: Everyone is welcome to share ideas, mix and mingle at this social event.
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 5th (Saturday) 2005
Obstacles to Improving English Learning in Japan
Speaker: Robert Aspinall, D. Phil.
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 8th (Saturday) 2005
What's Lev Got to Do With It? Vygotskyan Trends in Recent Pedagogy, Professional Development and Language Acquisition
Speaker: Larry Metzger, Deryn Verity, and David Woodfield
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

December 12th (Sunday) 2004
Osaka Chapter Bonenkai
Speaker: It's a party!
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 13th (Saturday) 2004
Support for Narrow Listening Libraries, followed by Annual Chapter Business Meeting and Officers' Election
Speaker: Brian Caspino, Himeji Dokkyo University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 17th (Sunday) 2004
A Day Celebrating Learner Development: Work in Progress
Speaker: Andy Barfield, Mike Nix, Stacy Vye, Yoko Wakui, Eiko Iwata, Marlen Harrison, Kathi Kitao, Ellen Head, Denise Haugh, Amy Fenning, Matthew Apple, Larry Metzger, and more!
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

September 23rd (Thursday) 2004
Autumnal Equinox (Shuubun-no-hi)
Teaching Children Conference
Speaker: Tom Merner, Curtis Kelly, Yukie Kawaguchi, Chris Hunt, Linda Wittig, Yuko Uno, Anthony Torbert, Reiko Tada, Kanae Noda, and Don Block
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

July 10th (Saturday) 2004
Language Awareness
Speaker: Deryn P. Verity, Ph.D., Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

March 13th (Saturday) 2004
DramaWorks Revisited
Speaker: Theo Steckler of Dramaworks
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 15th (Sunday) 2004
Mini-Conference on English Language Teaching
Speaker: Mary Jeannot, James Hunter, Gerald Williams, Jun Arimoto, Jonathan Aliponga, Rie Sugiura, Ken Tamai
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 10th (Saturday) 2004
"I'm sorry, I can't remember" - Adapting Memorization Activities to Require Thinking
Speaker: John Fanselow
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 26th (Wednesday) 2003
Passport or Excess Baggage? Current Concerns in Socio-cultural Training in the Classroom
Speaker: Simon Greenall
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 25th (Tuesday) 2003
An Informal Discussion with Elka Todeva
Speaker: Elka Todeva, School for International Training
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 8th (Saturday) 2003
Osaka JALT Chapter Business Meeting and Officer Elections Party
Speaker: None
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 11th (Saturday) 2003
Scrivener's Model and Task Based Learning
Speaker: Jason Moser
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

August 3rd (Sunday) 2003
Osaka JALT Summer Meeting & Social
Speaker: Tom Pendergast
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

April 27th (Sunday) 2003
Spring Picnic Party [postponed to 4/27]
Speaker: It's a picnic!
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 9th (Sunday) 2003
English Education in Viet Nam and Thailand
Speaker: Professor Cao Loan of Viet Nam National University, Gerald Williams of Kansai University of International Studies, and Brent Poole
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 27th (Sunday) 2002
Pot Luck Party and Workshop in Beautiful Mino Park
Speaker: Wade Muncil
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

September 15th (Sunday) 2002
Respect for the Aged Day (Keirou-no-hi)
Two presentations: (1) Global Issues and Creative Mind-Mapping; (2) Testing Basics: The ABCs
Speaker: Tim Newfields
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 16th (Sunday) 2002
Culture and the Language Classroom
Speaker: Joshua Kurzweil and Brian Long
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

May 19th (Sunday) 2002
Two presentations: 1) Effective Communicative Teaching Ideas for All Ability Levels, 2) Textbook Activities: Making Them Work for You
Speaker: 1) Gerald Williams and Alison Mackenzie, 2) Rebecca Arthur
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 17th (Sunday) 2002
Teaching Writing EFL
Speaker: Curtis Kelly, Heian Jogakuin University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

January 19th (Saturday) 2002
New Year Get-together (2002)
Speaker: Johann Junge, Creative Services International
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

December 2nd (Sunday) 2001
Personal and Public Writing
Speaker: Michael Carroll, Momoyama University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

November 17th (Saturday) 2001
English Teaching Development in Vietnam
Speaker: Nguyen thi Hoai An, a featured speaker at JALT 2001
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

October 21st (Sunday) 2001
Stories for the Heart
Speaker: Curtis Kelly and Mitsuo Nakamura, Heian Jogakuin University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 17th (Sunday) 2001
Developing a Conversational Syllabus
Speaker: Josh Kurzweil, Kansai University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

May 20th (Sunday) 2001
Self Assessment
Speaker: Gregory Anderson, Kwansei Gakuin University
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

February 18th (Sunday) 2001
Language and Cognitive Science
Speaker: Dean Williams
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture